The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-01
"Yoa can't get at it till the snow melts,.


started back for the Sucker State. The fol
lowing summer he tried it again, but the
snow was still there. He has not been
around yet this summer, but he's expected.
If this should meet his eye before he starts
he may save himself a long and mean
journey, for the memory of the oldest
pioneers is authority for the statement that
the same Old snow has been covering the
side of the mountain on which his claim is
supposed to be located ever since Denver
was & settlement, Or the white man came to
these foothills in search of gold.
APUT-UP JOB.
''But the toughest thing on st. Louis that
have heard, said the man who told the
stories about Tom Johns, lis about Colo
RADIO mine which has been Just placed there.
and which, have no doubt, is going to be
one OF the biggest and meanest swindles in
mining or anything else that st. Louis or
any other place have yet known. am
familiar with these facts myself, and they
are straight. A few weeks ago a Colorado
man appeared in st. Louis with mine
which he had only recently bonded for
$1,000. He did not misrepresent it in any
manner, but was honest enough in his way;
he wanted to sell it for SIS 900, and was, YOU
see, satisfied to make profit of $4,000 on
the transaction In his efforts to sell he
ran across certain parties in ST.
Louis who apparently were not as
honest as himself They urged him
to put the price of his mine up to
$50 600, and give them chance to place it
IN their own way-that is by subscription or
selling stock, The Colorado man at first de-
INJURED, but was won over at last, and only
the other day the sale was consummated.
There are four men in st. Louis in the
scheme, and the man from Colorado. One
OF the st; Louisans is actively placing the
stock. The other three, as stockholders,
visited the mine, or pretended to do so, and
made most favorable report. They repre-
sented it as bonanza, and stock, l under
stand, is selling very rapidly. The mine
may be good one or it may not; the chances
are that it is entirely worthless, but what
ever It's value, you can clearly see the con-
spiracy has for its object the skinning of a
number OF innocent people who will be in
duced to purchase stock on the representa-
tons OF three of the interested parties, who
will obtain clear profit after paying the
$4,000 for which the mine was bonded, of
over $4,000 each"
! suppose this stock, as the gentleman
said, is going like hot cakes, and it is little
unfortunate that the names of the schemers
and OF their property cannot be given, so as
to protect the public from what on it's face
looks like a gigantic Swindle. The names
hoped that they will
THE BOSS MINE.
IA curious case of fleeing said the ex-
pert, sis the sale of the Boss mine to st.
Louis crowd for $4,000. A fakir went to
Louis with some rich specimens of wire
gold, and displayed them as the product of
the Boss mine, up near Breckenridge. The
glittering metal caught the eyes of num-
Der of gentlemen, who sent from their midst
baker, restaurant keeper and a
broker, neither of whom knew
a mine from a meat-ax, and
one of whom was SO deaf that job could
be put up on him by any number of people
using fog horns The two visited the mine.
They were shown into a tunnel, and the
wire gold was pointed out to them fairly
dripping from the rocks. This was enough
They never stopped to investigate the title
to the mine. They hurried back to st.
Louis and paid over their 100000. The
very day the money was paid a telegram
was sent West and the same night the Off
GERS of the law took possession of the Boss
which was in litigation at the time of the
sale, as blind man could have seen by look
ing over the records, which are open to
everybody. 1t is claimed that the Boss
tunnel, which is under the Key West mine,
is part of that property, and the mine has
been in law for some time"
When the st. Louis stories gave out the
gentlemen turned their attention to the sub
ject of dishonest miners and the difficulty
of preventing mine employees from stealing
and carrying away specimens, particularly
where the specimens are rich. 1t was agreed
by the party, all of whom had experience to
speak from, that Cornish miners, though the
best workmen, are to be less trusted than
any other class The Idaho gold mine, in
Grass valley, Cal, has the reputation of
furnishing the finest specimens in the world,
and for a long time it suffered from the dis
honesty of its employees Then the proprie-
tor, Mr. Coleman, devised a plan which he
thought would entirely do away with the
possibilities of stealing. He built a large
room at the entrance to the mine and
another some fifty feet or so inside the mine
The men, on coming to work, entered the
first room
STRIPPED TO THEIR PELTs;
then they walked naked past a number of
inspectors to the inner room, where they
donned their working clothes. At the end
of the day they left their working clothes in
the inner room, walked naked through the
guarded passage to the first room, put on
their clothes and went home but not before
their dinner buckets We're closely examined.
In this way Mr. Coleman thought he had
completely circumvented the dishonest Cor
nishman. But he was mistaken. Speci-
mems got out and were sold in the neighbor-
ing town. He began an investigation, and
n Cornish miner was arrested, who finally
confessed that when he found an unusually
rich specimen he beat it smooth with his
hammer and concealed it on his person so
that he was able to carry it past the guards.
even though in a state of nudity.
At Nevada City $1,000 pounds of ore were
sold short time ago for $4,000. 1t was
identified as the product of the Eberhard
mine. near White Pines, and there was a
GREAT deal of curiosity to learn how it had
been carried out of the mine. The story
was obtained in some way, and this is it:
A Cornish miner employed in the Eberhard
had his dinner bucket made with a false
bottom, into which he put specimen every
day. CARRYING it away safely to a cabin
which he shared with another Cornishman,
yboworked on the night shift. AS his part
ner was absent when he was present. he had
no trouble in secretng the ore, placing it
each night under the floor of the cabin and
keeping its presence and whereabouts
secret. One morning he informed his part
ner that he was going to quit the Eberhard
and leave the country. The partner must
have been suspicious, for he only waited for
fine ore thief 20 get out OF SIGHT, when he
tore No the cabin floor, and, borrowing
horse and wagon, loaded up the l,S00pounds
If stuff and driving 10 Nevada City, sold
If He then disappeared, and the original
thief never got cent for his share OF the
plumber. ------
Rough on Piles"